MoH vs. CoD MW2

My take on the two

Well as for most of gamers that are FPS the wait for next Tuesday can’t come any faster. But before that we have the new Metal of Honor game that has been out for a little bit now. I picked it up and have been playing both the campaign & multiplayer and here is my take on the new MoH. In the campaign you play a majority of the time as one of two Tier 1 warfighters that are Navy SEALs, that being Deuce or Rabbit. There is an Army Ranger and a gunner of an AH-64 which is a nice break from the story.

Which leads me to the first of the comparisons, the story in Call of Duty you are fighting a terrorist that is fictional. In MoH you are against the real life Taliban which has been changed to OPFOR in the multiplayer due to the fact that there are real GIs fighting and have died against the Taliban. Which I have no problem with, since those with a brain will know who you are fighting in the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan. Which is another comparison too, the areas are so real looking you get that feel you are there. The color of the desert and mountains are so well how can I but it one color that it is easy to see how a person can be lost in the back ground. In campaign you get a real sense of how hard it is to conduct the war in such a mountainous area.

Which leads me to my next comparison which is how you are equipped; in CoD you have only two weapons and a grenade or special equipment. In MoH you are more real to life in the fact that you have your main weapon a secondary and a side arm. Plus the handy dandy knife for a melee attack, which I will comment more on in a little bit. Also it seems that fact is given that if you get shot no matter by what weapon you will go down.

In multiplayer for MoH well there you have only 3 choices, sniper, CQB or one with a sub-machine gun, and a rifleman who can carry an assault rifle or LMG. And here is where some of the things that have pissed me off so much and I will address now. Let’s start with the fact there are times that while playing I get dropped from the EA servers, not to mention that is lags as much as if I was still on dial-up. The choices of only 3 builds does limit you some, I mean as a sniper you can’t carry a RPG or AT4. And the rifleman only has a smoke grenade, but can noob tube if the weapon equipped can launch a 40mm grenade. But I do have to say that during the came I can change the load-out of the person I want to go with. Meaning that if long range sniping isn’t working then I can change to the SVD or G3 for a faster follow up shot. When you die during online play you have a 5 second respawn which isn’t so bad for Hardcore but in regular play is madding to say the least. The next thing is the spawn killing (I could use a stronger description but I wanted to stay away from that word). In some matches you respawn were you started, and sometime during the match they have you switch side on the fly. And during some of the different match types you can respawn right there alongside some at the front. But the problem there is you pop in alongside of one of you teammates and that could mean you are in the open while he is in cover.

The different games online are a lot like those in CoD. Even when I first started playing they used terms that are use in Modern Warfare, like Domination, Team Deathmatch explain the different matches so that you knew what was what. Another thing that really pisses me off is the fact that the melee is so touchy, and that just trying to get the weapon up and aimed cause me to whip out the knife. Which usually get me killed during the match, but on the other hand when you do a proper melee attack you have to be close to do so. Unlike in CoD in which it seems that they reach out in a freakish distance to get the kill.

Also missing is are some of the perks that you get, boy do I miss sleight of hand, or even cold blooded. But staying true the real life I can accept that in this game. But what I do love about the game online play is that because it is on the DICE you can destroy things which should get destroyed when you fire on them.

Also what they call a scoring chain, which leads you to the kill streak attacks that we have on CoD. But the big difference that I love is that should you say get a head shot kill along with save a team mate in doing so you get points for that in your kill steak support. Which your first support for that is 50 points and what I just described to you would go like this. A kill gets you 10 points, a headshot is 5 more points and saving your teammate another 5. This would have gotten you 20 points toward that 50 you need. And then if you call in a mortar attack which is the first in the score chain and gets some kills with that then that goes toward the next step in the chain. Also should you get killed before you could do so and when you respawn and call in the strike and get kills with that. It still goes toward the start of a new chain, and rewards those who take time and are marksmanship.

Another thing that is a breath of fresh air, is the noob tubing which there isn’t so much in it as CoD. And if you do have the mad tuber well unlike in CoD the damage doesn’t always kill you in MoH. But overall I enjoy this game and would recommend it to anyone one of my friends that want a very good FPS and one that has a solid campaign story. Yes there are things that I didn’t like about this game but what would you want them to copy another popular game out there and be accused of not being original. So while I am counting down the days until CoD Black Ops, I am logging sometime playing this. And also since my Modern Warfare 2 disc(Tango Uniform) isn’t being read on my 360.

Comments (2)

Sorry dude...

I really wanted to read this, but got confused reading halfway through it because you didn't use paragraph spaces. I ain't a grammer Nazi (you can tell by my gramatical errors in my comment), I just kept losing my place when I was reading through it, and it doesn't help that I'm reading at work with all these distractions. Don't get me wrong, I think it was very informative. I'm thinking of picking up MoH, but haven't seen anyone do a comparison on the game, especially with CoD:MW2. My advice would just be, next time consider the reader and split your points into paragraphs next to make it a bit more readable.